The second week of running Linux on my work laptop is moving along
smoothly. I've only had to boot Windows once. I needed to edit a
Word document that someone else had created and I didn't want to munge
the layout and formatting with OpenOffice. (I tried, but it kind of
munged it.)
I upgraded the laptop last night to Redhat 9. Instead of actually
doing an upgrade, I decided to wipe and re-install. I backed up my
home directory and nuked it. Everything went smoothly. Once I got
Java re-installed and the system updated with the latest fixes, I was
ready to rock and roll.
So far, I only have a few beefs. Here they are:
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APM - flaky. But, as a coworker pointed out, it's flaky under
Windows, too. BUT, it's really flaky under Linux. Why can't my Intel
machines work like my Mac? I put it to sleep and it powers down
almost instantly. I hit a button and BOOM there it is, awake and
ready to do my bidding.
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Laptop hardware support. I can't hotswap the DVD-ROM for my extra
hard drive in my modular bay. Just won't work. (Haven't tried on RH
9 yet).
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Wireless card. I have an older Linksys wireless card. I wasn't
able to get it working in RH 8 without recompiling the kernel and
sacrificing to the gods. I haven't tried in RH 9 yet.
Overall, I think things are going extremely well.
9:17:01 AM 
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